Danika Casey is a Special Counsel in our Employment & Industrial Relations team, specialising in work health and safety.
With more than 12 years of specialist experience, Danika advises clients across the mining and resources, energy, construction, transport and manufacturing sectors on all aspects of work health and safety law.
She has extensive experience supporting organisations in relation to serious workplace incidents, including investigations, regulator engagement, prosecutions and coronial proceedings.
Danika also advises on psychosocial risk management, contractor management and the work health and safety aspects of major infrastructure projects and strategic workplace change initiatives, helping clients navigate complex and evolving workplace risks.
Prior to joining JWS, Danika was embedded on secondment within BHP's Health and Safety and Coal legal teams.
Working as part of an in-house legal function, she gained first-hand insight into the operational and commercial realities of managing safety risk in a large and complex resources business.
This experience informs her practical and commercially focused approach to advising clients.
*Experience prior to joining JWS included in work highlights below.
Work highlights
BHP (secondment)
Working within BHP's Health and Safety and Coal legal teams on key safety and operational matters, including psychosocial risk management, major capital projects, contractor management and strategic organisational change.*
Technology and organisational change
Advising a global resources company on work health and safety risks associated with automation, the adoption of new technologies and workforce transformation initiatives.*
Psychosocial risk management
Conducting psychosocial hazard and risk management reviews for various clients, including advising on hazard identification, critical control development, consultation obligations and incident notification and investigation processes.*
Critical incident response
Supporting multiple clients following serious and fatal workplace incidents, including investigations, regulator engagement, statutory reporting, stakeholder management and enforcement activities.*
Major infrastructure and projects
Advising government, principals and contractors on work health and safety obligations associated with major infrastructure, transport and energy projects, including complex contracting models, contractor management issues and disputes.*
Work health and safety prosecutions
Representing various organisations and individual workers in work health and safety prosecutions following workplace incidents, as well as negotiating enforceable undertakings and other alternative resolutions to prosecution.*